Against the Odds: Ayula Bear Loam (Modern, Magic Online)

[@aaronnava5656]

In the future, when you see Seth punting, remember that he once beat Hogaak while it was still unbanned using Ayula, bear tokens, and Arboreal Grazer. Sometimes, he's alright.

[@michaelgarigen7069]

It definitely brought a smile to my face. almost don't want them to ban hogaak anymore. Lets make the meta adapt.

[@aaronnava5656]

@@michaelgarigen7069 BEAR TRIBAL AT THE PRO TOUR LET'S GOOO

[@apock2474]

Deck: Is running a Loam Strategy Ren & Six: I am about to empty this mans entire wallet.

[@florianw116]

They're more than a third of the $989, aren't they?

[@Ms_Stabby]

$90 a piece, 85 Tix a piece

[@morecirnothancirno]

Opponent: literally just two mana leaks Seth: MANA LEAK TRIBAL ALL THE LEAKS IN THE WEST

[@MTGGoldfish]

Sometimes I’m a bit hyperbolic;)

[@brunnun]

@@MTGGoldfish waaaaat no!!! Hehe love the videos keep up the good work

[@aaronnava5656]

He kind of played around the second Mana Leak, too. I wonder if that game would have gone differently if he'd played Ayula the following turn

[@Atmapalazzo]

@@MTGGoldfish It's more concerning that you had been saying for the past two turns that they were holding up a counter then seem amazed at them having said counter. We worry about your sanity Seth!

[@Vininn126]

@@MTGGoldfish I would say you're the most hyperbolic in the west, hyperbole tribal.

[@Kryptnyt]

Assembling ursatron is easier than you might think

[@Kydrou]

Here's a Hug and some conmemorative salmon for your excellent subtle joke. It shouldn't be lost in the forest of comments. Sorry for the honeyed words, but you should know it made me growl and claw in enjoyment.

[@CL32582]

I see what you did there. 👏

[@itze_]

I kinda get it

[@thoop6795]

3 years later and this is still gold. Hope you get this notification so you can remember how funny you are.

[@jjohansen86]

9:53 The moment you start beating Hogaak with bears. Literal BEARS! Few things could be sweeter!

[@Foxribble19]

🐻 force one

[@toomanypancakes]

I just started cracking up after the Hogaak player scooped. That was delightful.

[@zeroofthekings]

UNBEARABLE POWER!!!!!

[@bigbrainenergyguy]

Who would win in a fight? -A giant undead monstrosity, composed of thousands of corpses and powered by unholy spellcraft -Less than eight f*cking bears

[@zachevans2220]

But at least one of those bears was massively swole

[@gamalielrodriguezfernandez219]

Hogaak: oh? you're approaching me? instead of running away, you'r coming right to me? Ayula: I can't bear the shit out of you without getting closer

[@richardanderson9092]

The lack of attacks with Arboreal Grazers on an open board is just about unforgivable.

[@halmyrach]

Agree, need to send a message and assert dominance on the board :P

[@melissagrenier2200]

Even better would be attacking into 1 creature that can't kill grazer. Make those messages painful to send.

[@natestrasburg]

Hey it's Seth. Probably better known as Snow-Covered Olive.

[@alexandernovatney9159]

The third deck is Temur Midrange! Centered on Goyf, Huntmaster, JtMS, and basic blue control. Its just a fair deck that looks to grind like the olden days of Modern.

[@cedricwestcott1852]

Which is why it's bad lol

[@brunnun]

Bad but sweet

[@cedricwestcott1852]

@@brunnun I like the deck but realistically it's a little too fair

[@alexandernovatney9159]

It is certainly a relic from a different age of Modern. Still playable and pretty good, but not nearly what it once was

[@int3r4ct]

As soon as I saw the opponent cast a Huntmaster, I shed a silent tear for a bygone era :'( RIP midrange decks

[@malcom91]

Now we need a Sword of Bear and Bear

[@SeanGomesPortfolio]

Why only two bears when you can have the Forebears Blade. It's FOUR bears. (Note do not do this)

[@bradleykyonizuka2558]

Sword of grizzly and bear***

[@Ubermunki3]

Sword of two and two

[@CraigLaq]

This deck really helped show off why Wrenn and Six is so strong...and expensive. The deck seems like a lot of fun! It works! Reminds me a little bit of the Swans and Seismic Assault.

[@florianw116]

Isn't Ayula's Influence kinda weird? The flavor is pretty clear, she leaves clawmarks on rocks that turn the rocks into bears that defend her territory. But the bears don't have an elemental creature type. They're regular bears. Fully formed adult bears that weren't raised as a cub. How do they know how to behave? Can they communicate with normal bears? How do they fit into bear culture? Is there discrimination against them? Can they reproduce? What DNA do they even have?

[@joakimandersson7769]

You just have to bear the inconcruency.

[@Evensong_Conductor]

we don't even have to ban Hogaak anymore

[@Kydrou]

Wait a week to see Ayula be banned, due to it being better than Hogaak...

[@sumdud2129]

10:40 well of course bears would beat hogaak , it was fortold in game knights

[@dboeify]

"Not just bearly, we kinda crushed them." -Saphron Olive

[@marshall4439]

Thank you so much for this deck, Seth! Definitely will be talking it up on a future episode of Masters of Modern! Alex is all about Ayula's Influence + Loam and W&6, but adding in the Queen herself seems a stroke of genius!

[@MTGGoldfish]

Sweet! Make sure to link me the episode. I want to keep working on the deck.

[@torremond1312]

Hogaak: "This is unbearable." I could bearely take it, man.

[@Beilmanimal]

Hogaak was bearied in card advantage.

[@DylanHunter64]

"Arboreal Grazer is probably the worst. Untap." *draws second Arboreal Grazer* "Oh God...."

[@KingNothing191]

When Seth does not realize he faced the same Gaak opponent twice and beat him... TWICE

[@adammoldover8769]

SymbiX161 just realized that! That’s awesome :)

[@KnightPlaylist]

Hogaak can't bust the bearicade!

[@Blorblorb]

I think Commune With the Gods could be a nice addition to the deck, it digs a lot for exactly the things you're searching. Plus, it puts things in the gy to give targets to Life From The Loam and grabs some notable sideboard cards

[@SomeFreakingCactus]

Ayula confirmed hard counter vs. Hogaak.

[@Hero-er9oj]

I just finished watching the Yarok deck where you talked crap about grazer for 3 hrs 😂. I know it's better with Wrenn and $ix but it's still funny

[@mattnoonan6519]

Meryn MTG was on this a month ago! Also, needs more Sisemic Assault!

[@Small_Panda]

Nah instead of throwing shocks just throw bears.

[@Mr2ndAmendment27]

Seismic Assault doesn't trigger Ayula ... Also 4 lands discarded to kill Hogaak.. I guess if you had multiple seismic out but still...

[@mattnoonan6519]

@@Mr2ndAmendment27 good point. I just thought it might be a good option. I guess the value of Ayula is that she can be worth an extra 2 damage.

[@joakimandersson7769]

@@mattnoonan6519 If you discard 4 cards to Influence, you get 8 power on the board, which is usually better than shooting 8 damage to something. Also, if you have Ayula, you get 16 power on the board and kill their biggest dude, which is insane. The synergy pushes it, but even without it Seismic is a good card but for another type of deck.

[@samueldobs8861]

B&R announcement Modern: No changes It's come to our attention that modern can bear hogaak.

[@ctomsky]

15:12 Ahh... the old... Hogaak Transformational Sideboard Plan into a Mill deck Strategy... that ol' gem... I guess...

[@Eledan13]

Yeah what the heck was that? Is that a thing the kids are doing these days?

[@ctomsky]

@@Eledan13 I imagine its something someone was trying as a response to everyone else main/sideboarding graveyard hate. Basically means they can steal game 1 and then jank out game 2.

[@Kydrou]

It DID get closer to defeating Seth than the other Hogaak player. May their souls be damned eternal in bearpoop

[@ctomsky]

@@Kydrou I AM pretty impressed by Ayula and Influence with Loam, not so much by the Red half of the deck or the Grazers and Astrolabes and Wren is just so overpriced and not remotel worth it in this deck. I think mono green is the way to go.

[@a.velderrain8849]

@@ctomsky Try Simic with Treasure Hunt.

[@erik0234]

As I understand it, Ayula paired with the Ayula's influence enchantment gives you access rapid fire, zero-cost (just discard a land) projectile bear 2/2s to launch across your opponent's entire board until it's clear, OR buff the bears with counters and THEN fight, and then if Ayula isn't summonsick you can pump counters until she has lethal with one swing. Crazy combo, thank you for the gameplay.

[@MTGGoldfish]

It's pretty sweet!

[@jackpabich763]

32:21 Is that a bear pun? Tomer would be so proud!

[@lionkingmatiouz3441]

Pop corn time => That was awesome Seth !

[@moneyforshort]

Ah yes bears vs the best deck in modern; this is the content I come for.

[@crovax1375]

For that burn match up I suppose that their is a reason why Smokey the Bear is a staunch advocate for forest fire prevention!

[@MikeB-dn5li]

1:00 deck name says Auyla Bear Loam.... not sure why I focused on this. Drove me nuts tho

[@spikescafe3940]

Spelled wrong, too

[@ErroneousClique]

Should have been called something like "Build a Bear Loam." :P

[@Beefman.0]

I was wondering whether a conflagrate or two could be used over the blood moons

[@EvonyBasics]

I almost fell out of my seat when you got Archive Trapped out of the Hogaak deck

[@lordchaos7770]

I dont get the grazer in this deck. It removes lands from your hand which is also where you want them for ayulas influence. Seems bad after turn 2

[@morrius0757]

It's ramp protected from most removal, while it hurts influence, it's speed is enough of an upside to not be a big issue.

[@domyr6999]

This deck does a lot of stuff I've wanted to see happen.

[@Tony9804]

I've been waiting for this deck!!

[@Shmackle123]

It's the Bear Wrenn Six and Loam, the Hogaak killing Bear Wrenn Loam of life!

[@KindlyAshe]

if this is the reason Hogaak stays unbanned I'll tell you hwhat.

[@superdimentiobrolyX]

When ayula first came out i said to my good friend and local spike my one dream is for this card to be conpetitive in modern, he said keep dreaming. The ayula dream is alive.

[@NatesiKness]

32:21 "not just BEARLY"

[@ernestmatthews9867]

This deck looks so much fun. Really want to try it too

[@papinick712]

courser of kruphix seems like it would be pretty good in this deck

[@wemf2]

Hmmm... since the mana required is quite low, maybe you don't need to have 4 copies of Grazer?

[@MTGGoldfish]

Yeah, not sure. It is helpful for playing things like Blood Moon and Ayula's Influence a turn early, but maybe it's not necessary.

[@Nrdyco]

The Chandras never.. came out? Kinda seemed like dead cards in your hand

[@tatemarshall]

Of course this deck will be good. It's running wren and six.

[@sebastianfricke3454]

Please make another video with this deck. I love to see the beating of hogaak with this deck🔥

[@MTGGoldfish]

We'll have to play it again. It was really fun!

[@davidpepin3017]

"We got him not just bearly". I saw what you did there.

[@florianw116]

I would play the Amonkhet duals in this deck over Forgotten Cave.

[@DonovanPresents]

That first game made me so happy!

[@MTGGoldfish]

Me too!

[@newtpondskipper]

I feel bad for anyone getting I to magic now, so many amazing cards that cost so much money. Most of them are lands...

[@sanderferreira2507]

Thats why people in my town create a legacy 15U$ format, afordable very powerfull with a lot of spicy brews and new players

[@Alpsus]

@@sanderferreira2507 do you have the format rules somewhere? bans etc.

[@sanderferreira2507]

@@Alpsus the banlist is the legacy one, and we use starcity prices as base for de decklists, it can be surpass 15,00U$ sideboard included.

[@JacoIII]

I don't see why you weren't attacking with the bears during the game at 44:45. Bears get opponent to negative life and then you can use Chandra's +1 to add poison counters. It's not a fast clock, but it's a clock. Am I missing something?

[@What-md3dq]

Putin After watching this: “ Hold my Bear”

[@malikismyname]

YES! Had to stop the video after the first win to write a happy note! Oboy! Did that first win against hooks feeel goood🥰🤓😎

[@Kydrou]

Not as good as the fourth!

[@melissagrenier2200]

Burn player: draws 3 non-burn spells in a row game 1 Seth: maybe we got a little unlucky? Though to be fair that game 2 draw from the opponent was bonkers in the matchup.

[@janloydllorada868]

Bear beatdown! Sweet deck!

[@totalcoward]

Every time I’ve ever seen Ayala played against Hogaak, she has always won. It’s kind of crazy.

[@BentTimeAndSpace]

Soooooo does this deck look better after the Hogaak and Looting banning?

[@stevensbaxter]

*opponent casts second mana leak* "boy! mana leak tribal! all the leaks in the west!"

[@zachevans2220]

Don't forget: in the SaffronOlive lexicon, "two" and "infinite" are the same thing

[@runescapewarrior66]

Seth: "... and if we already have Big Bears..." Me: BIG BEARS? Super Trooper scenes flash in my head.

[@Beefman.0]

Is it just me or does Seth share his opinion more often? It’s cool

[@nivalisonora9137]

I usually go to bed and watch some skyrim videos or so but i always wake up to Seths videos paused at the ending OwO

[@marshall4439]

Seth! Please do a new Ayula deck, post-Hogaak! I really wanna make this deck work as a fun outsider modern deck.

[@Small_Panda]

After game 1 match 1 I think this might just be my favorite deck. Though you totally missed a chance to stay hogaak just couldn't bear it.

[@ErroneousClique]

Was awesome to see Ayula blow out Hogaak...twice! XD

[@MassiveFoot29]

*Takes down Hogaak with bears* But this does put a smile on my face

[@blackiscolor7732]

i thought this was a budget magic, until i heard " with life from the loam and wrenn and six"

[@ToxicallyMasculinelol]

man ayula's text is so dope. if "bear" was replaced with "human" or "elf" or honestly half the creature types in the game, it would be so busted. did you ever try to build an ayula + arcane adaptation deck? seems like that would be fun too, maybe a bit jankier but you know

[@GlennTheSadMarinersFan]

"not just Bearly, we kinda crushed them."

[@erik0234]

THE SPELLING of "Ayula" --(the title above is the correct spelling)--is INCORRECT on the background graphic of the intro segment. Made her name look weird as hell hahah "AUYLA" sounds like "A-Yula, that's just one yoo-lah."

[@twoblueuntapped886]

Seth: Arboreal Grazer is such a bad card! Also Seth: let's play it in modern!

[@KeroVlog]

It cracks me up how Seth pronounces Ayula because it sounds like someone who just found out the word "uvula".

[@Kydrou]

Who'd guess bears were known for eating cadavers so efficiently...

[@Bradley-jm2ou]

Did you make it to Europe? Personally I would choose to go there instead of Vegas...really means something to your family

[@justinclark8238]

the ammount of times you Astrolabe into astrolabe is definitely interesting

[@everstudent0897]

2nd punt noticed: this deck could really use autumns/summers veil, cavern of souls.

[@Konjester]

Isn't blood moon good against Hogaak? I've only seen 1-2 basic swamps in the deck and a whole bunch of non basics.... And little to no actual red cards outside of Faithless and maybe lightning axe

[@erik0234]

Not knowing the first thing about Modern, that title was enough for me to say what the fuck I have to hear about this deck.

[@alexanderszewc9448]

The.. Bear Necessi-trees, Against the Odds necessities

[@BaygelTheDog]

this made me forget about my worries and my strife, yeah man

[@rprat350]

Can you not stack counters on ayula at instant speed? Am I missing something? Against burn you attack in and he likely doesn’t block. Doesn’t it make it an instant speed kill?

[@MTGGoldfish]

Yeah, that was a misplay.

[@justinking215]

Wait........what....mind blown

[@ODIRGO]

on the second game that you got mana screwed. on turn 3: Why didn't you loam to get the land from the gy, then cast grazer and set the land you just got? that way you could get 4 lands. you decided to do something else and stayed without enough mana for the rest of the game. or there was something I'm not seeing?

[@OGNoNameNobody]

The only bear that was a travesty for being missing is *River Bear* ; assassin of dirty Blue Mages over all the Multiverse!

[@tricky7137]

Bear Force 6 is the perfect name for this deck, missed opportunity Sethy.

[@SmashPortal]

Gameplay @ 6:17

[@necrocreature9117]

Game one you could've pumped up the 6/6 bear again, then had it fight hogaak, and been in an even better spot. Although proof Ayula is just so good Hogaak can't do anything against it.

[@JBergmansson]

Came here to say this.

[@RobWirdWachsen]

that was unnecessarily risky though (instant speed removal for 1 mana from opponent e.g. fatal push), keeping 3 lands to do exactly that in instant speed was much better

[@walrusassociation9317]

Hogaak's weakness is its complete absence of removal.

[@Chapterhouse86]

Dang Seth, you were so close to a 4-1 or 5-0. Just bear-ly missed it.

[@Nuke100]

@32:00 not just barely? Intentional pun?

[@petersmythe6484]

Just imagine if Ayula were a human with human synergy instead of bear synergy. Bears being bad really hurts the card.

[@SpektralJo]

Yeah that would be quite broken

[@carvalho9626]

Wouldn't Blue be a better color to support this deck than Red? Counters, Ice-Fang Coatl...

[@Dyals_Style]

Bear necesities the simple bear necesities 🎶🎵

[@chriscunningham6401]

It must feel so good to beat Hogaak.

[@comannail2549]

Loved it chuckled when you killed hogaak

[@la.zanmal.]

32:20 "And not just bear-ly..."

[@detoxfidelity]

24:36 Why Loam precombat? They were very likely to trade the Eidolon; you gave up 2 life for no reason and lost because of it.

[@dangottsacker2061]

What would be a good replacement for blood moon? I despise blood moon with a passion.

[@MTGGoldfish]

More Faithless Looting probably.